It took thousands of years for society to settle on the fact that slavery was wrong.
Mental-health experts cautioned against trying to settle on an explicit cause when someone kills himself.
Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, has yet to settle on a clear position.
Police said they were expecting snow to settle on Haldon Hill, near Exeter, on Tuesday night.
This is the amount we would advise a seller or buyer to settle on.
The Chinese and the two firms have yet to settle on iron ore prices this year.
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When it came time to buy a place, she was quick to settle on the Sengokuyama Residence.
Non-Muslim scholars, too, see signs of a conscious, but not wholly successful, effort to settle on a definitive form.
And the reason for that is the inability of different countries to settle on an international standard for reporting.
If regulators were to settle on 8%, Greek banks would be hardest hit.
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In particular, a group of investment firms and hedge funds failed to accept reasonable offers to settle on their debt.
Each school uses different factors some throwing out home equity, for instance, but others counting every dollar to settle on the final package.
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They have a knack for sorting through large amounts of information and opposing points of view to settle on a decision.
It seems that Microsoft has decided to settle on a single look.
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If the Republicans take the White House, they may be willing to settle on more favorable terms than the Klein brigades would.
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So the Security Council tends to settle on the lowest common denominator.
Tonight, 100 voters who have yet to settle on a presidential candidate will have a chance to quiz John McCain and Barack Obama.
Playing with a new vibrancy, Tyrone, with young Ryan Mellon superb in midfield alongside Cavanagh, never allowed Armagh to settle on the ball.
After putting pen to paper it's nigh on impossible to settle on 35 or 36 players - just who do you leave out?
By the end of June, EU member states need to settle on a budget for the 2007-13 period, and already this is controversial.
Now if they decide they want to stream something from Netflix, it might be little bit hard for them to settle on one show.
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It has raised questions of him possibly being called up by England, especially with Capello apparently yet to settle on a firm long-term fixture in goal.
Taxes are a big priority, of course, but with the quasi-sea change this election is effecting, they need some time to settle on who does what.
In particular, is this the day when the team is trying to settle on a recommendation for the best intervention strategy to present to the President?
Economic experiments were conducted to determine whether bidders had a tendency to settle on equilibria that achieve the efficient designation of spectrum to licensed and unlicensed operations.
I...was fiercely anti-Catholic, and recruited Protestants from Scotland, far more so than from England, to settle on land in Northern Ireland from which Catholic families had been removed.
These words are being written before the dust has had a chance to settle on Monday night's naval commando raid of the Gaza-bound Turkish flotilla of terror supporters.
Each year at Forbes, the editorial team struggles anew in its attempts to settle on one definition of power and what it means to the women who wield it.
The lawyers themselves, of course, have a financial incentive to settle on terms that reward them with the most profitable fee in comparison to the time invested in the case.
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